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they used those to throw me out. that's just one example among hundreds of others of how this policy has been abused and violated to serve the purposes of the military. it's not there to protect gays and lesbians. it is there to throw them out. this is one more example of it. how senator mccain and our leaders in congress are out of touch with this policy and using partisan interest above national security. this must stop. >> major mike almy, discharged from the united states air force after the military searched his private e-mails while he was serving during the height of insurgency in iraq in 2005, mike, thank you for your activism, your service, thank you for joining us tonight on short notice to respond to senator mccain tonight. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> we'll see you again tomorrow. we're proud of our excellent blog at mad owblog. and our free podcast is available at i tp tunes. thanks for tuning in with us again tonight. we knew this would be a big show with the don't ask, don't tell vote today. we'
they used those to throw me out. that's just one example among hundreds of others of how this policy has been abused and violated to serve the purposes of the military. it's not there to protect gays and lesbians. it is there to throw them out. this is one more example of it. how senator mccain and our leaders in congress are out of touch with this policy and using partisan interest above national security. this must stop. >> major mike almy, discharged from the united states air force...
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that is what drives us. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers on the c-class. >>> msnbc's lawrence o'donnell joins us next. plus this -- >> we do not go out and see, find out if someone is gay or not. i don't know if they are not. i know they don't go out. they do not. they do not. they do not. you can say they are. it's not true. >> that is the case of mike almy. >> senator john mccain apparently does not understand the faintest thing about the policy he filibustered today. major mike almy, formally of the air force, the man whose case bewildered john mccain today will be joining us live in just a minute.ck and -do the times you tried quitting... ♪ ...then started again. but every smoker was a non-smoker once. and you could be again. for many, smoking is a treatable medical condition. so talk to your doctor about prescription treatment options and support. and make this time, your time. it will with natural instincts. it's clinically proven. 80% of women agreed that natural insti
that is what drives us. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers on the c-class. >>> msnbc's lawrence o'donnell joins us next. plus this -- >> we do not go out and see, find out if someone is gay or not. i don't know if they are not. i know they don't go out. they do not. they do not. they do not. you can say they are. it's not true. >> that is the case of mike almy. >> senator john mccain apparently does not understand the faintest thing about...
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that is what drives us. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers on the c-class. to finish what you started today. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, there's new motrin pm. no other medicine, not even advil pm, is more effective for pain and sleeplessness. new motrin pm. >>> two interesting sets of votes today as the republicans successfully filibustered the whole defense bill to stop the military from being allowed to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. first jim webb. lots of reporting before the vote suggesting that even though he is a democrat, he was going to side with republicans on the filibuster. he did not do so. senator webb put out a statement today indicating his continued hostility to repealing "don't ask, don't tell," but he said the defense bill should not be filibustered. second, the two democratic senators from arkansas, blanche lincoln and mark pryor, neither on the national radar as party-switchers on this vote. but both voted with republicans to fili
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has already used chemical weapons to kill thousands of people. >> suddam hussein has and used mass destruction weapons against america. that, of course, has turned out to be bull puck key as well. press secretary said this. make no mistake, as i said earlier, we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. that is what this war was about and is about. no it isn't and no it wasn't ever. even the bush administration was forced to concede reluctantly that there were not weapons of mass destruction where upon the president decided to make it into a joke. >> no weapons over there. maybe under here. >> that was just as hilarious at the time as it still is today, with more than 4,400 american lives to bolster the belly laughs. ultimately, none of the things our government, at the time, told us were the reasons we had to start a war in iraq were true. opponents of the war said they thought that at the time, and pretty much everybody else realized it soon after things really got going in iraq. so then after iraq did 9/11, after iraq has wmds, after those, the justification for the w
has already used chemical weapons to kill thousands of people. >> suddam hussein has and used mass destruction weapons against america. that, of course, has turned out to be bull puck key as well. press secretary said this. make no mistake, as i said earlier, we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. that is what this war was about and is about. no it isn't and no it wasn't ever. even the bush administration was forced to concede reluctantly that there were not...
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using the u.n. oil for food program to try to influence countries and companies in an effort to undermine sanctions. america is safer today with saddam hussein in prison. >> that was really the most amazing one. president bush who went to war in defiance of the u.n., went to war in iraq in defiance of the u.n., trying to retroactively convince us that really we only went to war against iraq to protect the integrity of the u.n. oil for food program. we're just taking care of our buddies at the u.n. in the end, after riffling through all of those different rationales for invading, the bush administration pretty much settled on the loan justification that nobody could take issue with. the loan justification that saddam hussein was a bad man. >> i sent american troops to iraq to make its people free. removing saddam hussein from power was the right decision. the men and women who crossed into iraq five years ago removed a tyrant, liberated a country, and rescued millions from unspeakable horrors. >> nob
using the u.n. oil for food program to try to influence countries and companies in an effort to undermine sanctions. america is safer today with saddam hussein in prison. >> that was really the most amazing one. president bush who went to war in defiance of the u.n., went to war in iraq in defiance of the u.n., trying to retroactively convince us that really we only went to war against iraq to protect the integrity of the u.n. oil for food program. we're just taking care of our buddies at...
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no wonder our enemies think they can defeat us. this has been the equivalent of a cultural oil spill. it's not sea otters and ducks that are washing up on shore, covered with gunk, it is our kids. >> we have to have the courage to tell the truth and we have to have the courage to act on the truth. we are allowing a brutalization and a degradation of children in this country, a destructiveness. >> bureaucrats and politicians in washington think they should decide the what kind of lightbulb we use. what kind of toilets we flush. they'll buy your teenage daughter an abortion, but they won't let her buy a sugary soda in a school's vending machine. a lot of the money that we're spending goes to things that we know will not prevent aids, but indeed will continue to spread the disease, when a lot of our money goes to distribute condoms in high schools, when a lot of our money goes to distribute material that is literally pornographic. >> the culture wars are back. in some cases, they never went away. people got jobs doing other things, ra
no wonder our enemies think they can defeat us. this has been the equivalent of a cultural oil spill. it's not sea otters and ducks that are washing up on shore, covered with gunk, it is our kids. >> we have to have the courage to tell the truth and we have to have the courage to act on the truth. we are allowing a brutalization and a degradation of children in this country, a destructiveness. >> bureaucrats and politicians in washington think they should decide the what kind of...
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joining us now, ezra, msnbc contributor. thank you for joining us again. >> how are you? >> same as i was before except more blown away. this is not the big narrative. the big narrative is about what is going on on the right. has the much smaller that's true of what people are paying attention. to is this a sign of enthusiasm or at least organization among the democratic base? >> certainly a sign of organization. you know, and it what we are seeing, there is this. people don't like d.c. right now. the narrative is supposed to be people don't like democrats. in fact they don't like d.c.'s republicans either. you see the d.c. democrats going down. like swett and you see the republicans going down like in delaware with castle. and the basic message is they don't like what's going on right behind me. >> this is shaping up in new hampshire. this race, this kuster versus swett race in new hampshire. we don't have every precinct reporting but it is shaping up to be a very big spread. and in an election in which there is not a primary next which there is not huge turnout, there a
joining us now, ezra, msnbc contributor. thank you for joining us again. >> how are you? >> same as i was before except more blown away. this is not the big narrative. the big narrative is about what is going on on the right. has the much smaller that's true of what people are paying attention. to is this a sign of enthusiasm or at least organization among the democratic base? >> certainly a sign of organization. you know, and it what we are seeing, there is this. people don't...
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that is what drives us. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers on the c-class. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer i but i justve my 5 employcan't afford it.ance, i have diabetes. i didn't miss a premium payment for 10 years. and i'm worried if i lose my job, i won't be able to afford insurance. when i graduated from college, i lost my health insurance. the minute i got sick, i lost my insurance. not anymore. not anymore. not anymore. america's healthcare reforms change lives for the better. to find out how it can help you, visit us at americasfairhealthcare.org it's not just fair, it's the law. >>> it is quite a trick to be a u.s. senator, to show up at a celebration of the return of jobs in your home state, and to get lustily booed by the home folks at that photo op. who exactly achieved that feat and how that good senator earned every bit of it? that's next. also, we have one programming note for you. the big vote on the defense authorization bill is scheduled for tomorrow at
that is what drives us. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers on the c-class. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer i but i justve my 5 employcan't afford it.ance, i have diabetes. i didn't miss a premium payment for 10 years. and i'm worried if i lose my job, i won't be able to afford insurance. when i graduated from college, i lost my health insurance. the minute i got sick, i lost my insurance. not anymore. not anymore. not anymore. america's healthcare reforms...
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thank you for joining us tonight. and welcome to the last major night of primaries before this year's midterm elections. it is now 9:00 p.m. on the east coast, which means that polls have officially closed in the seven states across the country, holding elections tonight. plus the district of columbia. we are keeping an eye on all of the results as they come in this hour. perhaps the biggest single race of the night is the race for republican nomination for senate in the great state of delaware. it's the race to fill vice president joe biden's old senate seat. polling leading up to today suggesting a virtual dead heat between nine-term republican congressman mike castle and the tea party-backed challenger christine o'donnell. right now with 67% of precincts reporting, christine o'donnell leads mike castle with 55% of the vote to mike castle's 45%. we will have much more on this race in a moment. polls have just closed in the state of new york, where controversy plagued democratic congressman charlie rangel is trying t
thank you for joining us tonight. and welcome to the last major night of primaries before this year's midterm elections. it is now 9:00 p.m. on the east coast, which means that polls have officially closed in the seven states across the country, holding elections tonight. plus the district of columbia. we are keeping an eye on all of the results as they come in this hour. perhaps the biggest single race of the night is the race for republican nomination for senate in the great state of...
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blame each other and divide us. is there a high road to take in a bad economy election or do you see both parties likely just seeking to out scapegoat or out blame the other guys? >> you know, it is tough because history tells us that we do a sort of ethnic balkanization, sort of pulling to our own kind and claiming that whoever is not like us must somehow be to blame for our economic downturn. if there is a high road at all, you know, interestingly, we saw a little bit of boehner trying to do it during the passage of the wall street bail out and we saw barack obama doing it toed. when president obama talked about his economic plan it was framed very similar to both how his 2008 speeches but even his 2004 speech, sort of no red america, no blue america, there's only the united states of america. well, similarly today he said, really, all americans are in this boat together. again, strangely enough, this was similarly how boehner was suggesting republicans should be thinking about the wall street bail out in '08, tha
blame each other and divide us. is there a high road to take in a bad economy election or do you see both parties likely just seeking to out scapegoat or out blame the other guys? >> you know, it is tough because history tells us that we do a sort of ethnic balkanization, sort of pulling to our own kind and claiming that whoever is not like us must somehow be to blame for our economic downturn. if there is a high road at all, you know, interestingly, we saw a little bit of boehner trying...
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